Licensing Policy

The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence allows users to share and adapt licensed material for any lawful purpose, including commercial use, provided the licence conditions are met.

JPMHR does not normally require users to seek additional permission from the journal or authors for uses already permitted by CC BY 4.0.

Subject to compliance with the licence terms, users may:

• copy articles in whole or in part;
• redistribute articles in any medium or format;
• include material in teaching and educational resources;
• translate published content;
• adapt figures or other licensed material;
• incorporate material into new scholarly or professional works;
• use content for text and data mining;
• reuse material in commercial contexts;
• archive or preserve copies; and
• build upon the material to create derivative works.

These permissions apply only to material covered by the CC BY 4.0 licence. Separate restrictions may apply to third-party content specifically excluded from that licence.

Appropriate attribution should normally identify:

• the original author or authors;
• the title of the work;
• the Journal of Precision Medicine and Health Research as the publication source;
• the DOI or permanent article link where available;
• the CC BY 4.0 licence; and
• whether material changes were made.

Attribution should not imply that the original authors, JPMHR, or BMU Ventures endorse the reuse, adaptation, product, organisation, or new work unless such endorsement has been expressly authorised.

Adaptations may include:

• translations;
• abridgements;
• educational adaptations;
• modified or redrawn figures;
• data visualisations;
• derivative analyses;
• multimedia adaptations; and
• other transformative uses permitted by the licence.

The adapted work should not be presented in a manner that falsely suggests that the original authors approved changes they did not review or endorse.

Material modification should be identified sufficiently clearly to distinguish the adapted content from the original Version of Record.

Commercial reuse does not require additional permission from JPMHR where the proposed use is already permitted by CC BY 4.0 and does not infringe separate third-party rights.

Commercial users remain responsible for:

• appropriate attribution;
• identifying the CC BY 4.0 licence;
• indicating modifications;
• respecting third-party material excluded from the licence;
• not implying endorsement; and
• complying with other applicable legal obligations.

Authors retain the ability to reuse, share, archive, distribute, and incorporate their published work into later scholarly, educational, or professional materials in accordance with the CC BY 4.0 licence and applicable third-party rights.

Authors may, for example:

• reuse content in a thesis or dissertation;
• include material in a later book or chapter;
• use material in teaching and training;
• deposit the work in repositories;
• share the work through professional channels;
• present the research at academic meetings; and
• develop further work based on the published article.

These non-exclusive rights may include the ability to:

• publish and host the article;
• produce and distribute full-text formats;
• maintain the Version of Record;
• register and update DOI metadata;
• distribute bibliographic metadata;
• submit or expose metadata to discovery and indexing services;
• deposit material with verified preservation services;
• implement corrections, retractions, and other scholarly-record notices; and
• maintain lawful archival and preservation copies.

These rights are non-exclusive and do not prevent authors from exercising their own copyright or the reuse rights granted under CC BY 4.0.

Authors are responsible for identifying and obtaining appropriate permission for third-party material where reuse is not otherwise legally permitted.

Third-party material may include:

• photographs;
• figures;
• tables;
• maps;
• questionnaires;
• measurement instruments;
• scales;
• copyrighted diagrams;
• substantial quotations; or
• other protected content.

If such material is not covered by the article's CC BY 4.0 licence, the published work should contain a clear credit line or rights statement indicating the applicable restriction.

Users seeking to reuse material excluded from CC BY 4.0 may need permission directly from the relevant rights holder.

Licence information should be available, where technically applicable, through:

• the article landing page;
• the published PDF or other full-text format;
• article metadata;
• DOI metadata; and
• other scholarly metadata distributed by the journal.

The journal seeks consistency between its public licence statement, article-level notices, publication files, and metadata records.

Subject to the detailed Self-Archiving Policy, authors may deposit:

• the submitted version or preprint;
• the accepted manuscript; and
• the published Version of Record.

JPMHR does not impose a routine embargo on author self-archiving.

Once the final publication is available, authors are encouraged to provide the DOI or permanent JPMHR article link so that readers can locate and cite the Version of Record.

Authors remain responsible for checking requirements imposed by their:

• research funders;
• employers;
• universities;
• institutional repositories;
• national research policies; or
• other contractual arrangements.

Such requirements may concern:

• specific licence wording;
• repository deposit;
• rights retention;
• acknowledgements;
• metadata;
• data-sharing obligations; or
• reporting to funding bodies.

Where a funder condition is compatible with JPMHR's publishing framework, authors may satisfy it through the appropriate repository, acknowledgement, licence, or metadata mechanism.

A reuser must not represent or imply that:

• the original authors approve an adaptation;
• JPMHR endorses a product or service;
• BMU Ventures endorses a commercial organisation;
• the journal validates claims made in a derivative work; or
• an adapted version is the original Version of Record.

Accurate attribution is required, but attribution must not be converted into a misleading claim of endorsement.

Copies or adaptations created by third parties must not be represented as if they were revised official versions issued by JPMHR.

Where practicable, redistributed or adapted versions should retain a citation or permanent link to the original JPMHR publication.

If the original article is later corrected, retracted, or otherwise subject to a formal scholarly-record notice, third-party reusers are encouraged to ensure that redistributed versions do not misleadingly conceal the updated status of the source publication.

JPMHR's rights framework consists of three complementary principles:

• Open Access: readers receive immediate free access to published scholarly content;
• Licensing: CC BY 4.0 defines broad public reuse permissions; and
• Copyright: authors retain ownership of their work.